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Business Daily meets: La June Montgomery Tabron

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4816 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Vivienne Nunis sits down with La June Montgomery Tabron, President and CEO of one of the world's biggest charities, the Kellogg Foundation. Last year the foundation distributed nearly half a billion dollars in grants.

La June is the first woman and the first African American to lead the foundation in it's 90 year history. In this episode she tells about growing up in a large family in Detroit and how she has transformed the Kellogg Foundation from a very male, very white organisation to one where half the staff are now people of colour.

Presenter: Vivienne Nunis Production: Vivienne Nunis and Jo Critcher Image: La June Tabron; Credit: Kellogg Foundation

Transcript

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0:00.0

The way that we interact with food, the beliefs that we have around food, the emotions that food hold, because food isn't just fuel, it has all of these other things.

0:08.4

In short, we are going to talk about food.

0:11.5

The food chain is the podcast with a love of all things food.

0:15.7

Something that is so much part of me.

0:17.8

Each week we take a deep dive into a story centered around food. Adventure into other

0:23.3

cultures. I look at the food as a kind of a global smogers board on which I can choose and pick.

0:30.0

Every place has their own rituals about it. Multiple identities full of possibilities.

0:35.3

The food chain from the BBC World Service.

0:38.5

Just search for The Food Chain, wherever you found this podcast.

0:44.5

Today on Business Daily, we're sitting down with one of the leading figures in the world of American philanthropy, Lajune Montgomery-Tabron.

0:53.5

Lajune is the president and CEO of the WK. Kellogg Foundation,

0:58.3

one of the largest charities in the world. But it hasn't been an easy road to the top.

1:03.0

Not only was I the first black person to serve in the role as president, but I was also the first woman.

1:12.2

We look back on the June's early life growing up in a large family in Detroit

1:16.6

and hear how she transformed the Kellogg Foundation from a largely white and male-led organization

1:23.1

to one where half of the staff are people of color.

1:26.6

I had people saying to me very early on,

1:31.1

I was obviously different from other people who look like me.

1:36.1

I'm not different.

1:37.5

I may be different from the narrative that you are accustomed to.

1:42.5

Legune Montgomery-Taybron joins me, Vivian Nunes,

1:46.3

in this edition of Business Daily Meets.

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